Lost world of complex life and the late rise of the eukaryotic crown

De novo phytosterol synthesis in animals

(2023) Dolma Michellod et al.   SCIENCE

Eukaryogenesis and oxygen in Earth history

(2022) Daniel B. Mills et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Evolution of bacterial steroid biosynthesis and its impact on eukaryogenesis

(2021) Yosuke Hoshino et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Sterols lower energetic barriers of membrane bending and fission necessary for efficient clathrin-mediated endocytosis

(2021) Ruthellen H. Anderson et al.   Cell Reports

A one-billion-year-old multicellular chlorophyte

(2020) Qing Tang et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The role of sterols in plant response to abiotic stress

(2020) Agata Rogowska et al.   PHYTOCHEMISTRY REVIEWS

Insights into eukaryogenesis from the fossil record

(2020) Susannah M. Porter   Interface Focus

Geological alteration of Precambrian steroids mimics early animal signatures

(2020) Lennart M. van Maldegem et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Absence of biomarker evidence for early eukaryotic life from the Mesoproterozoic Roper Group: Searching across a marine redox gradient in mid-Proterozoic habitability

(2019) Kevin Nguyen et al.   Geobiology

Impact of drill core contamination on compound-specific carbon and hydrogen isotopic signatures

(2019) Richard Schinteie et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Microbial assemblage and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the 1.38 Ga Velkerri Formation, McArthur Basin, northern Australia

(2019) Amber J. M. Jarrett et al.   Geobiology

Deciphering the evolutionary history of microbial cyclic triterpenoids

(2019) Paula V. Welander   FREE RADICAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE

Early fungi from the Proterozoic era in Arctic Canada

(2019) Corentin C. Loron et al.   NATURE

Free and kerogen‐bound biomarkers from late Tonian sedimentary rocks record abundant eukaryotes in mid‐Neoproterozoic marine communities

(2019) J. Alex Zumberge et al.   Geobiology

1.1-billion-year-old porphyrins establish a marine ecosystem dominated by bacterial primary producers

(2018) N. Gueneli et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Integrated genomic and fossil evidence illuminates life’s early evolution and eukaryote origin

(2018) Holly C. Betts et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Precise age of Bangiomorpha pubescens dates the origin of eukaryotic photosynthesis

(2017) Timothy M. Gibson et al.   GEOLOGY

Paleoproterozoic sterol biosynthesis and the rise of oxygen

(2017) David A. Gold et al.   NATURE

The rise of algae in Cryogenian oceans and the emergence of animals

(2017) Jochen J. Brocks et al.   NATURE

Microfossils from the late Mesoproterozoic – early Neoproterozoic Atar/El Mreïti Group, Taoudeni Basin, Mauritania, northwestern Africa

(2017) Jérémie Beghin et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Cryogenian evolution of stigmasteroid biosynthesis

(2017) Yosuke Hoshino et al.   Science Advances

Snowball Earth climate dynamics and Cryogenian geology-geobiology

(2017) Paul F. Hoffman et al.   Science Advances

Micropaleontology of the lower Mesoproterozoic Roper Group, Australia, and implications for early eukaryotic evolution

(2016) Emmanuelle J. Javaux et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Sufficient oxygen for animal respiration 1,400 million years ago

(2016) Shuichang Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Sterol Synthesis in Diverse Bacteria

(2016) Jeremy H. Wei et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Early sponges and toxic protists: possible sources of cryostane, an age diagnostic biomarker antedating Sturtian Snowball Earth

(2015) J. J. Brocks et al.   Geobiology

Proterozoic photosynthesis - a critical review

(2015) Nicholas J. Butterfield   PALAEONTOLOGY

Reappraisal of hydrocarbon biomarkers in Archean rocks

(2015) Katherine L. French et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The rise of oxygen in Earth’s early ocean and atmosphere

(2014) Timothy W. Lyons et al.   NATURE

Evidence for ancient halophiles? Testing biomarker syngeneity of evaporites from Neoproterozoic and Cambrian strata

(2014) Richard Schinteie et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Early evolution of the Eukaryota

(2014) Nicholas J. Butterfield   PALAEONTOLOGY

Low Mid-Proterozoic atmospheric oxygen levels and the delayed rise of animals

(2014) N. J. Planavsky et al.   SCIENCE

Paleobiological Perspectives on Early Eukaryotic Evolution

(2014) A. H. Knoll   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

On the Age of Eukaryotes: Evaluating Evidence from Fossils and Molecular Clocks

(2014) L. Eme et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Molecular paleontology and complexity in the last eukaryotic common ancestor

(2013) V. Lila Koumandou et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Tailing of Chromatographic Peaks in GC-MS Caused by Interaction of Halogenated Solvents with the Ion Source

(2013) J. J. Brocks et al.   JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHIC SCIENCE

Micro-ablation, a new technique to remove drilling fluids and other contaminants from fragmented and fissile rock material

(2013) Amber J.M. Jarrett et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Lipid taphonomy in the Proterozoic and the effect of microbial mats on biomarker preservation

(2012) M. M. Pawlowska et al.   GEOLOGY

A late origin of the extant eukaryotic diversity: divergence time estimates using rare genomic changes

(2011) Diana Chernikova et al.   Biology Direct

Millimeter-scale concentration gradients of hydrocarbons in Archean shales: Live-oil escape or fingerprint of contamination?

(2011) Jochen J. Brocks   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Estimating the timing of early eukaryotic diversification with multigene molecular clocks

(2011) L. W. Parfrey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nature of sterols affects plasma membrane behavior and yeast survival during dehydration

(2010) Sebastien Dupont et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

Special relationship between sterols and oxygen: Were sterols an adaptation to aerobic life?

(2009) Anne M. Galea et al.   FREE RADICAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE

Phylogenomics of Sterol Synthesis: Insights into the Origin, Evolution, and Diversity of a Key Eukaryotic Feature

(2009) Elie Desmond et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Oxygen, animals and oceanic ventilation: an alternative view

(2009) N. J. BUTTERFIELD   Geobiology

Assessing biomarker syngeneity using branched alkanes with quaternary carbon (BAQCs) and other plastic contaminants

(2008) Jochen J. Brocks et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Energy metabolism among eukaryotic anaerobes in light of Proterozoic ocean chemistry

(2008) M. Mentel et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES